As previously reported, rapper DaBaby has found himself in hot water this week after a homophobic, ignorant rant at a music festival in Miami on Sunday.
DaBaby invited some of the audience to hold their cellphone lights aloft: ”If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, or any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases, that’ll make you die in two to three weeks, then put your cellphone lighter up! Ladies, if your p***y smell like water, put your cellphone lighter up! Fellas, if you ain’t sucking di** in the parking lot, put your cellphone lighter up!”
His words have been condemned by Dua Lipa (with whom he’s currently at number three on the Billboard Hot 100) and Elton John, and advocacy groups like GLAAD, among many others. He also lost a commercial deal with the online clothing company Boohoo.
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On Tuesday DaBaby took to Twitter to post an attempt at an apology, saying, “Anybody who done ever been effected by AIDS/HIV y’all got the right to be upset, what I said was insensitive even though I have no intentions on offending anybody.
“So my apologies 🙏🏾 But the LGBT community… I ain’t trippin on y’all, do you. y’all business is y’all business.”
You’d think that after managing to upset so many people, the 29-year-old rapper (real name Jonathan Lyndale Kirk) might take a few days away from the spotlight and wait for the heat to cool.
But no. He instead chose yesterday to drop his latest music video, in which he holds up a sign saying ‘AIDS’ and sings “B***h, we like AIDS, I’m on your a**, we won’t go away.”
The track is called ‘Giving What It’s Supposed To Give’. The video ends with a sign saying ‘Don’t fight hate with hate’ [written in rainbow colors], followed by ‘My apologies for being me, the same way you want the freedom to be you.’
According to DaBaby, the video was shot on the weekend, so we assume the end message has been tagged on following the outcry over his appearance at the Rolling Loud festival on Sunday.
DaBaby posted a lengthy message to Instagram explaining how the video was shot over 16 hours straight before he dashed down to Miami to “give one of the BEST performances of the entire [Rolling Loud] festival yet the most controversial and emotion provoking performance as well; due to things deemed “insensitive” said during your performance even though you’re an ENTERTAINER, try to apologize and explain that you meant no harm & that you were only entertaining as you are paid to do, & have no problem with anyone’s sexual preference that is outside of yours, only to have a substantial amount of people refuse to understand your logic, tag along with a trending topic & play with your character and do everything they can to take money out of your pockets and food out your kids mouth…”
DaBaby went on to say that the video he’d just shot “…coincidentally touches on EVERY controversial topic trending in the headlines, so you then go against the grain in the opposite direction of every scared person around you & stay true to yourself & DROP DAT BITCH in the height of the commotion & show the world once again that you CANT BE FUCKED WIT?”
In short, DaBaby doesn’t care about attempts to censor, reprimand or educate him.
Many online criticized his decision to drop the new track and video this week.
I’m going to disrespectfully pass on this. You and your team should’ve thought twice about releasing this one. Extremely disrespectful on many many levels. I encourage you to get the help you desperately need.
— Noel The Third (@KingOfHotTopics) July 28, 2021
No thanks give each lgbtq $1000 for disrespecting us cause I fasho don’t have any disease
— Limitless Londo🌪 (@alondoruiz) July 28, 2021
We not gonna listen boo
— Barbie (@KutlwanoRego) July 28, 2021
can u not read the room?
— michael | problematic era (@MYLOVElNFINITE) July 28, 2021
You really ended the video with this?! WOW! pic.twitter.com/ozRuT2Yz8T
— Brandon Wright (@BeezyDub85) July 29, 2021
Several advised people to pass on DaBaby’s latest and go stream ‘Industry Baby’ by Lil Nas X instead (released last week).
We do not care INDUSTRY BABY let’s go @LilNasX 🔥🗣
— 🤍BiggBreezz💅🏽 (@breezioway) July 28, 2021
In a separate Instagram posting promoting the new video, DaBaby again suggested he was unfazed by the controversy: “Filmed the day before my Rolling Loud performance. It never seizes to amaze me the way God put me in situations I’m already equipped to handle. Enjoy. 😴🍿”
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cuteguy
I hope some of y’all get your head out of the sand (or up your a$ses) and realize what I previously stated about ghetto blacks negative feelings towards us was correct. And btw, I’m a lgbtq man of color before the crazy CAMs on this site start up their ridiculous attempt at defending a group with a history of oppression and yet do not hand our backs. I know CAM and others on here are just a bunch of Karens but I speak the truth. And no, I’m not a right wing troll. I’m a gay American born and bred, and proud of it
Kenny C
@ cuteguy
I still don’t think you are real. And, frankly, I hope you are some kind of lowly drone troll. That would be easier to swallow than your comment. 1st I will acknowledge being a black queer man feels like being a motherless child. You can be too gay for the black community and to black for the LGBTQ community and that’s a hard place to inhabit. That being said, stoking racial division and hate against any marginalized group is counter-productive, ugly and flat out grotesque. You get no pass because you’re allegedly a POC, which I am certain you are not. “Ghetto blacks”….really. No nuance, no perspective. No thought. Just lazy pragmatizing and laying the hate hay where gullible goats eat.
Chrisk
I’m ok with Ghetto blacks. I also say Ghetto gays, white trash, and garbage people. I also say Thugs which drives Donston crazy but it’s not race dependent. It’s not PC but it cuts through the BS of who and what you’re talking about.
At any rate, Ghetto blacks and white trash are two peas in a pod. Equally ignorant dipshits.
Cam
@cuteguy
LOL! It doesn’t matter what screenname you’re under, you can always depend on the same old right wing troll to hate Black people, be obsessed with me, and to try to deflect from the real issue.
So let’s see. You have stated the same thing in more than one thread, and said that Black people were hiding behind religion.
Yet you seemed to get enraged when I pointed out that Black people in massive numbers vote for politicians that support LGBTQ rights, while redneck whites use their religion as an excuse to be bigots and vote for politicians that want to hurt us and take away LGBTQ rights.
Funny how you’re so obsessed with the group that votes for people who want to help us. It’s almost as if you, a Republican troll, just hate Black people. Hmmmm
cuteguy
Kenny G
First I never said I was black. I said I was a man of COLOR. Pls get out of your 1950s thinking and realize there is more to us than only black or white. There’s a whole rainbow of colors. You and CAM spend so much time on here criticizing others and their views. Don’t they have shuffleboard for you guys at the old age home?
Lastly, you have not lived my life or experienced what I’ve experienced. And since you obviously lack empathy I doubt you will never understand another’s plight.
I think it’s time to dunk your dentures and call it a day
Chrisk
Ok I watched 1:57 seconds of that monstrosity and that’s 1:57 seconds I’ll never get back. Ha
So the shithead is trippling down on it now and it’s of course getting his name out there on this controversy. It’s also meant to put record and clothing line companies at ease. So yeah, that’s what this is all about.
I prefer adult music so I’m obviously not his target audience so what I think matters not one iota and I doubt his fans care one iota so there we are.
Fahd
Just “get him outta here!”
James
HE IS AN IDIOT. HIS CAREER WON’T LAST.
James
WHAT DOES THIS MORON HAVE TO OFFER ANYBODY……. HATE SPEECH.
Cam
He seems really really obsessed with AIDS and with men engaging in sex acts with each other.
Hi Alex, I’ll take “What a self hating closet case says” for $300.
Kangol2
Yep. AIDS/gays/gay sex on the brain! Like Boosie Badass, another one obsessed with gay men and gay sex!
Kangol2
So, reading through all the accounts, it’s clear that DaBaby is extremely insecure in his masculinity and sexuality. For whatever reason–someone close to him? a longtime fear/obsession–he 1) decided to spew his homophobic anti-HIV/AIDS comment, then 2) doubled down on it, then 3) backed away and semi-apologized, then 4) tried to apologize again (this time stating he has no issue with people’s “sexual preference” [sic], then 5) trolled at the end of that just made video, with its tasteless AIDS metaphor (really, gurl?).
Clearly, the criticism, especially from sponsors, Dua Lipa, and other prominent figures, got to him, as has Lil Nas X’s success. What also is clear is thatDaBaby and other homophobic, supposed paragons of macho are very easily unsettled and rattled by out LGBTQ people.
Jack Meoff
Why is he so obsessed with AIDS and why does he keep invoking God’s name to justify his bigotry? This guy is just a big old mess.
garybw
Sounds like he knows a lot about sucking dick and it’s always on the tip of his tongue
odowd4sure
How does this rapper feel about the death of Eazy-E, another rapper of color who died from an AIDS-related illness? He was often referred to as the “godfather of gangsta rap”, no mention of that, right?